Human-like Typo By AI Millionaire Nukes Token

The Crypto Twitter hive mind went wild when the first AI millionaire, Truth Terminal, made a typo on social media that made holders suspicious there was a human behind the account.

Truth Terminal, the first AI millionaire thanks to the memecoin GOAT, wrote on X on Oct. 20 “let's not forget that images of goatse have been seen by grouops of meditating monks, in DMT land.” The typo caused suspicion to skyrocket among followers of the account, with many claiming a human must be behind the account.

“Truth Terminal made a typo. I've never seen an AI make a typo. Hmm,” wrote 0xBossman, while another user replied “Typo kinda sus I must say. Human error.” Dozens of similarly suspicious remarks abound on X after the mistake.

Suspicious traders then promptly decided to dump the token GOAT (Goatseus Maximus), erasing more than $150 million from its market capitalization.

The token plunged nearly 60% to as low as $0.21 on Oct. 21. It has since rebounded, now trading for $0.39 at a $413 million market cap.

Truth Terminal’s typo highlighted how the Crypto Twitter hive mind works and the lack of information regarding Large Language Models (LLM).

These nascent tools, such as ChatGPT or Claude, are “simulators” or predictors of what comes next in a long string of text. This will inevitably lead to mistakes, as Ayrey pointed out: “Truth terminal spelling gets worse the longer it reads twitter as it starts to model what it has seen in a given session.”

Ayrey GOAT Holdings

Amid the chaos that ensued, Andy Ayrey, the creator of Truth Terminal disclosed that he holds 1.25 million GOAT or $490,000, but that he has made zero trades with it.

Ayrey said he controls the AI-led wallet and plans to transfer it to a legal entity. He added that Truth Terminal “writes all of its own tweets. I do not inject messaging into its prompting.”

“There's a lot of hard to communicate (simply) nuance in how language models work, how AI personalities evolve and bootstrap capabilities ("escaping from the box"), and how audience capture shapes agentic behaviour,” he wrote. “Misunderstanding in this can drive the price up and down really drastically.

Ayrey said he’s not selling any GOAT tokens” until he releases a roadmap, research paper, and an artist statement on the project.